Mahalaya

Mahalaya is an interesting film based on the incident of the well-known incident regarding the Mahishasur Mardini radio program which gets telecast every year on Mahalaya. Created by Birendrakrishna Bhadra and Panka Mallick, the radio program has become an inseparable part of Bengali's Durga Puja and culture. The movie will revolve around the incident of 1976 when the directors of Akashbani replaced the very program with a new one. The team replaced Bhadra with Mahanayak Uttam Kumar who directed and chanted the stotra in the new program called Durgati Harini. But, Bengal's matinee idol too failed to leave any impression and Akashbani had to bring the old team back the very next day! Jisshu Sengupta has been roped in to play Uttam Kumar and Subhashish Mukherjee plays Birendra Krishna Bhadra in this drama directed by Gulab Gang director Soumik Sen. Soumik will debut in Bengali cinema with this period drama bankrolled by Nideas production. Prosenjit Chatterjee plays a pivotal role in the same.